Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I'm going to commit a cleaned up version of my rc startup mods > to handle diskless BOOTP kernels, especially diskless BOOTP kernels > with read-only NFS mounts of / and /usr. > > Basically this consists of a bit of code in /etc/rc and, later tonight, > an /etc/rc.diskless sc

Re: Current's availability

1999-01-24 Thread John Hay
> It's all a bit ill right now during the transition to 3.0S/4.0C from > 2.2S/3.0C - I hope to have the build boxen back on the feet this week > sometime. > > - Jordan > > > > Yesterday I tried to ftp a current set of floppies from > > current.freebsd.org - nothing there but 2.2.X stuff - 3.0 t

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:03:15PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> The driver doesn't have any special support for SiS. It uses generic > >> support in some cases, apparently including your case. Recent fixes > >> made it actually initialize DMA on the correct drive, but the > >> initialization in

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Bruce Evans
>> The driver doesn't have any special support for SiS. It uses generic >> support in some cases, apparently including your case. Recent fixes >> made it actually initialize DMA on the correct drive, but the >> initialization in generic_dmainit() is buggy (it assumes multi-word >> DMA mode 2 but

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Nate Williams
> > > > I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, > > > > myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for > > > > ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape > > > > still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:08:19PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> Can you find out what chipset is in this guy? There's support for anything > >> Intel or VIA, Promise UDMA cards, Cyrix MediaGX, and Acer Aladdin IV/V > >> right > >> now. > > > >See kern/9550. The driver *used* to support my SiS c

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Bruce Evans
>> Can you find out what chipset is in this guy? There's support for anything >> Intel or VIA, Promise UDMA cards, Cyrix MediaGX, and Acer Aladdin IV/V right >> now. > >See kern/9550. The driver *used* to support my SiS chipset, but it no >longer does when both master and slave drive are present s

Re: make aout-to-elf-build failure

1999-01-24 Thread Mark Murray
Randy Bush wrote: > when i did all these, see previous msg, it all worked. i successfully went > from a pure aout 3.0-current of 981231 to 4.0-current of today. Cool! > your assistance was really appreciated. Yours too. I have the list of places from your other mail, and I'll be doing them this

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 03:32:16PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 24 January 1999 at 23:25:42 -0500, Lee Cremeans wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:19:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > >> It doesn't work on my CTX box, though - heh. Quantity verses Quality, > >> I guess.

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread David Kelly
Matthew Dillon writes: > Well I'll be a cat in a hat! IDE DMA actually works on my old > PPro-200 box with a new IDE drive! A solid 8 MBytes/sec out of the > thing. My poor old 4 GB SCSI barracuda could only do 4.3 MB/sec. > Time to replace the barracuda, I think. What did you

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Lee Cremeans
> > :> I haven't cvs updated in 24 hours, if the Acer is newly committed then > I'll > :> have to update again and retry. The CTX is using the Acer. > :> > :> ide_pci0: rev 0x20 > int a irq 0 on pci0.11.0 > : > : > :It's there...what symptoms are y

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 24 January 1999 at 23:25:42 -0500, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:19:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> It doesn't work on my CTX box, though - heh. Quantity verses Quality, >> I guess. The CTX box was ~$1K 3 months ago while my PPro box was ~$3K >> a

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> I haven't cvs updated in 24 hours, if the Acer is newly committed then I'll :> have to update again and retry. The CTX is using the Acer. :> :> ide_pci0: rev 0x20 int a irq 0 on pci0.11.0 : : :It's there...what symptoms are you seeing? Are you o

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:34:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:19:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :> It doesn't work on my CTX box, though - heh. Quantity verses Quality, > :> I guess. The CTX box was ~$1K 3 months ago while my PPro box was ~$3K >

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:19:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> It doesn't work on my CTX box, though - heh. Quantity verses Quality, :> I guess. The CTX box was ~$1K 3 months ago while my PPro box was ~$3K :> a year and a half ago. : :Can you find out what chipset is in this g

beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'm going to commit a cleaned up version of my rc startup mods to handle diskless BOOTP kernels, especially diskless BOOTP kernels with read-only NFS mounts of / and /usr. Basically this consists of a bit of code in /etc/rc and, later tonight, an /etc/rc.diskless script ( a new

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:19:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > It doesn't work on my CTX box, though - heh. Quantity verses Quality, > I guess. The CTX box was ~$1K 3 months ago while my PPro box was ~$3K > a year and a half ago. Can you find out what chipset is in this guy? Ther

Re: make aout-to-elf-build failure

1999-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
>> /usr/obj/aout/usr/src/tmp/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: libcrypt.so.2, needed >> by /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so, >> not found (try using --rpath) >> /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so: >> undefined reference to `c

IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
Well I'll be a cat in a hat! IDE DMA actually works on my old PPro-200 box with a new IDE drive! A solid 8 MBytes/sec out of the thing. My poor old 4 GB SCSI barracuda could only do 4.3 MB/sec. Time to replace the barracuda, I think. It doesn't work on my CTX box, though -

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Mike Smith once stated: =OTOH, you should consider going back to single-character directory =names, since that's much more significant. a) this will limit the number of directories to you-know-what b) this will inconvinience a _user_ rather then a _programmer_, for who

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Edwin Culp
Nate Williams wrote: > > > I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, > > > myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for > > > ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape > > > still continues to function just fine and has nev

Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out L

1999-01-24 Thread W Gerald Hicks
From: Alfred Perlstein > I couldn't figure out that you can use cvsup to grab the repo, then > use plain 'ol cvs from that. Now i'm well on my way into 'make > release'. And if you have cvsup-mirror loaded (running cvsupd), you can even use cvsup against your local repository. Seems a good bit

Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out L

1999-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> Finally, why not just use a local repository you weenie? 8) > > > > > > Because, certain other weenies :) have web pages up on > > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook that don't explain how to do this, and > > > aren't very clear on the topics that ARE

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Bruce Evans
>Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, >not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering >of nodes. OID_AUTO is not bogus. It is just an implementation detail. The sysctl data structures have to have a place to put a number for old-style numbe

Date going ahead by one year.

1999-01-24 Thread Kevin G. Eliuk
Hello, This may be just a chance occurance although I recall some posting in the last day regarding the date being changed when rebooting, so I thought I would post. Rebooted my machine after letting others near the box and upon starting pine it was asking whether I wanted to save my sent mail.

Re: 3.0-CURRENT -> RELENG_3: trouble ?

1999-01-24 Thread W Gerald Hicks
From: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg Subject: 3.0-CURRENT -> RELENG_3: trouble ? Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 03:39:57 +0100 (MET) > Hello all, > > I'm running 3.0-CURRENT at the moment, last timme I built world is > about 2 or 3 weeks ago I guess. What I want to do is go to 3.0-RELEASE > and from then star

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Nate Williams
> > I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, > > myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for > > ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape > > still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of > > my syste

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Julian Elischer writes: > That is at least my opinion.. you may and do disagree. I guess you will > say that numbers are just as dynamic, etc.etc. well I just think that in > the REAL WORLD, as opposed to the theoretical world, names (which require > no co-ordination between authors), are a better

Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out L

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> > On 24-Jan-99 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > >> Finally, why not just use a local repository you weenie? 8) > > > > Because, certain other weenies :) have web pages up on > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook that don't explain how to do this, and > >

Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out L

1999-01-24 Thread John Polstra
On 24-Jan-99 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > >> Finally, why not just use a local repository you weenie? 8) > > Because, certain other weenies :) have web pages up on > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook that don't explain how to do this, and > aren't very clear

3.0-CURRENT -> RELENG_3: trouble ?

1999-01-24 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hello all, I'm running 3.0-CURRENT at the moment, last timme I built world is about 2 or 3 weeks ago I guess. What I want to do is go to 3.0-RELEASE and from then start keeping track of the 3.x-STABLE branch. Since I've read a lot about various problems people had with this I now wonder: is it sa

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> > not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering :> > of nodes. :> :> Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far :> more sense than a name -- pretty much anything in any network stack :> other than Chaosnet, for example. If any of us ever make g

reading BIOS environmental vars

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
Is there any way to read some of the newer BIOS features such as CPU temp., fan status etc ? Is this even a standardize BIOS feature set ? ---Mike ** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin* m...@sentex.net Sentex Communica

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > > As soon as someone modifies sysctl to work with KLD modules > > that would be a reasonable suggestion > > > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > > I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifyi

bug with TCP over lossy lines?

1999-01-24 Thread John-Mark Gurney
well, I've seen a bug where the machine will actually recieve a packet from the remote machine that ack's data, but for some reason it will not get to the stack, and the local machine will continue to send old data... the local machine is metriclient-1.uoregon.edu, the remote machine is jupiter.uo

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> > Pardon my intrusion, but I strongly dislike the very thought about > my computer looking-up the same string more then once or twice. If it > counts -- I'd take a number over a string anytime anywhere other > then in a documentation. Since sysctl isn't a performance interface, this isn't reall

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> < said: > > > Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, > > not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering > > of nodes. > > Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far > more sense than a name -- pretty much anything i

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Amancio Hasty
http://www.developer.com/experts/expertspanel.html click on Bar's Guide to the the Interactive Fiction and after the page finishes loading click "Back" on Netscape's tool bar. Instant core -dump. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, > myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for > ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape > still continues to function just fine and has never crashed a

Re: Booting -current with new loader

1999-01-24 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 09:29:59AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > num_ide_disks is now deprecated, you can throw it > away. If you resup, you won't need root_disk_unit either - that just > avoids the code I broke. Confirmed. My system now boots quite happily without num_ide_disks o

Re: Current's availability

1999-01-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> On another note, does curr...@freebsd.org now correspond to 4.X ("-current") > discussions, while sta...@freebsd.org now correspond to 3.X ("-stable")? Basically, yes. > If so, is there / will there be a separate forum for 2.X ("-stable in a > past life")? I think we could probably discuss tho

Re: Current's availability

1999-01-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Yes. > Will you be keeping the last snapshot of 2.2.X around when it returns? > > > On another note, does curr...@freebsd.org now correspond to 4.X ("-current") > discussions, while sta...@freebsd.org now correspond to 3.X ("-stable")? > If so, is there / will there be a separate forum for 2.X (

Re: Current's availability

1999-01-24 Thread John Robert LoVerso
Will you be keeping the last snapshot of 2.2.X around when it returns? On another note, does curr...@freebsd.org now correspond to 4.X ("-current") discussions, while sta...@freebsd.org now correspond to 3.X ("-stable")? If so, is there / will there be a separate forum for 2.X ("-stable in a past

Re: Can't mount root. Really need help...

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
From the boot prompt you should be able to specify the correct root device. Try: boot: /kernel -a The problem is probably the breakage other people have described, with sd0sNa turning into sd0a or da0a or something like that. -Matt

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Seldom. But the strings are still in the kernel, which becomes :bigger with every build. My argument was more general, however, :and directed against the growing tendency to use string literal :(and copy them beck and forth). IMHO, the point of faster hardware :is purely to have thing running fast

Can't mount root. Really need help...

1999-01-24 Thread Chris Knight
Greetings, I have learned a very valuable lesson. No matter how many time I have made world, I shouldn't do it while I'm tired. Last night I synced my tree and made world. I rebooted, and was going to remake my kernel after the boot. That became an impossibility. After the the message "Wait

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Julian Elischer once stated: => Pardon my intrusion, but I strongly dislike the very thought about => my computer looking-up the same string more then once or twice. If it => counts -- I'd take a number over a string anytime anywhere other => then in a documentation. =how often do you use this?

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > Pardon my intrusion, but I strongly dislike the very thought about > my computer looking-up the same string more then once or twice. If it > counts -- I'd take a number over a string anytime anywhere other > then in a documentation. how often do

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread sthaug
> I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, > myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for > ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape > still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of > my system so much

Re: keymaps

1999-01-24 Thread Gregory Bond
> What's wrong with us.unix.kbd? This also swaps a bunch of other things - Grave<->Esc, BS<->Del, etc. It was more confusing, so I made a new keymap. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Matthew Dillon once stated: =This is a silly argument. Unless the operation in question =needs to be run a thousand times a second, a string is just =fine as a lookup mechanism. Duh. Besides, you can always =cache the translation. I'll agree, that todays hardware turns this in

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of my system so much as once.

Re: Problem booting using /boot/loader

1999-01-24 Thread Harry Starr
Just to let you know that re-cvsup'ing and building /boot has FIXED the problem. Thanks, Mike. Harry. - Original Message - From: Mike Smith To: Harry Starr Cc: Daniel C. Sobral ; current Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 3:23 AM Subject: Re: Problem booting using /boot/loader >> Yep! >

Re: Mail archive question

1999-01-24 Thread Wolfram Schneider
On 1999-01-21 12:10:38 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > Given a message id and a mailing list, is there some way construct a > URL that will fetch that mail message. This will make doing the > UPDATING file a little easier when long messages are sent to > -current. I can say blah blah blah changed, se

Can't mount root. Really need help...

1999-01-24 Thread Chris Knight
Greetings, I have learned a very valuable lesson. No matter how many time I have made world, I shouldn't do it while I'm tired. Last night I synced my tree and made world. I rebooted, and was going to remake my kernel after the boot. That became an impossibility. After the the message "Wait

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
This is a silly argument. Unless the operation in question needs to be run a thousand times a second, a string is just fine as a lookup mechanism. Duh. Besides, you can always cache the translation. -Matt

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Julian Elischer once stated: => Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far => more sense than a name -- pretty much anything in any network stack => other than Chaosnet, for example. If any of us ever make good on the => threat of SNMP integration, having fixed numerical id

Re: Current's availability

1999-01-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
It's all a bit ill right now during the transition to 3.0S/4.0C from 2.2S/3.0C - I hope to have the build boxen back on the feet this week sometime. - Jordan > Yesterday I tried to ftp a current set of floppies from > current.freebsd.org - nothing there but 2.2.X stuff - 3.0 tree gone and > no

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Luke
On 24-Jan-99 Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >> I've given up on Netscape. On some FreeBSD-based machines >> I have, it just core dumps... on others it works. Nobody >> seems to know (or care) why, so I would suggest following >> the development of Gzilla and Amaya. >> >> Of course, it would be imm

Re: one other small prob with pcm0

1999-01-24 Thread Jos� M� Alcaide
Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > This is a trivial problem, but I just thought I'd let someone know about > > it. (cosmetic) Take a look at my dmesg output: > ... > > Probing for PnP devices: > ... > > pcm1 (SB16pnp sn 0x) at 0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1 flags > > 0x13 on isa > > Probing for devices o

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Julian Elischer
yeah and we should get those nice valves that used to make radios so useful as space-heaters. On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, > > not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numberi

Re: make aout-to-elf-build failure

1999-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
>> /usr/obj/aout/usr/src/tmp/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: libcrypt.so.2, needed >> by /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so, >> not found (try using --rpath) >> /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so: >> undefined reference to `c

sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, > not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering > of nodes. Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far more sense than a name -- pretty much anything in any network st

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Archie Cobbs wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > > As soon as someone modifies sysctl to work with KLD modules > > that would be a reasonable suggestion > > > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > > I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying > > > > "netstat" t

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Julian Elischer writes: > As soon as someone modifies sysctl to work with KLD modules > that would be a reasonable suggestion > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying > > > "netstat" to understand the PF_NETGRAPH proto

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> < > said: > > > Peter pointed out that having the sysctl's as symbols was a nice > > advantage of the current system. How important is this? > > I don't think it's important at all. (Then again, I liked the old > system.) > > > If we were willing to give this up, then the SYSCTL() macro coul

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
> I've given up on Netscape. On some FreeBSD-based machines > I have, it just core dumps... on others it works. Nobody > seems to know (or care) why, so I would suggest following > the development of Gzilla and Amaya. > > Of course, it would be immensely helpful if we knew what > mysterious pers

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Peter pointed out that having the sysctl's as symbols was a nice > advantage of the current system. How important is this? I don't think it's important at all. (Then again, I liked the old system.) > If we were willing to give this up, then the SYSCTL() macro could > just expand to a

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Baby Jane Hudson
I've given up on Netscape. On some FreeBSD-based machines I have, it just core dumps... on others it works. Nobody seems to know (or care) why, so I would suggest following the development of Gzilla and Amaya. Of course, it would be immensely helpful if we knew what mysterious person within nets

Re: kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Julian Elischer
As soon as someone modifies sysctl to work with KLD modules that would be a reasonable suggestion On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < > said: > > > I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying > > "netstat" to understand the PF_NETGRAPH protocol family. "netsta

Re: one other small prob with pcm0

1999-01-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> This is a trivial problem, but I just thought I'd let someone know about > it. (cosmetic) Take a look at my dmesg output: ... > Probing for PnP devices: ... > pcm1 (SB16pnp sn 0x) at 0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1 flags > 0x13 on isa > Probing for devices on the ISA bus: ... > pcm0 not found i

kvm question

1999-01-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying > "netstat" to understand the PF_NETGRAPH protocol family. "netstat" > uses kvm_read(), etc. to read kernel symbols. However, this doesn't Don't do that. Use sysctl, that's what it's there for. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wo

Re: Problems with 4.0-current

1999-01-24 Thread Donald J . Maddox
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:47:25PM -0600, Stingray wrote: > I just CVSup'd 4.0-current and installed it, then made an elf kernel. > The elf kernel seemed to boot up just fine, but when the file systems > where being mounted, it couldn't mount /: > > Specified device does not match mounted de

4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Luke
I built 4.0 and after getting over the libcrypt thing it worked ok. But now every copy of netscape I have [5, all freebsd] freezes the system, waiting, switching to ttyv* dont help. and it doesnt dump core or syslog anything. Im not exactly sure what info would be helpful. Anyways other than netsc

Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out LKM support now an option..)

1999-01-24 Thread Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
#define quoting(Alfred Perlstein) // cvs up (not cvsup) takes me a LONG time to execute, i've been using '-z3' // for comppression because i'm on dialup, is this ok with you guys? (it // doesn't help much though...) // // cvs -z3 up -Pd src // // i'm also using ssh for transport as rlogin doesn'

Re: Heads up! New swapper and VM changes have been committed to -4.x

1999-01-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Boris Staeblow writes: > Beside your suggestions there are much more programs which use > libkvm: > > /bin/ps/ > /libexec/rpc.rstatd/ > /sbin/ccdconfig/ > /sbin/dmesg/ These are statically linked, and must be relinked after libkvm has been rebuilt. > /sbin/dset/ This does not exist anymore. >

gnurr in build-aout-to-elf

1999-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
this looks non-fatal, but unsightly (cd /usr/src/share/doc/smm/title; groff -mtty-char -Tascii -ms -o1- /usr/src/share/doc/smm/title/Title) | gzip -cn > Title.ascii.gz /usr/src/share/doc/smm/title/Title:48: warning: `pt' not defined /usr/src/share/doc/smm/title/Title:173: warning: `Ed' not defin

Re: Transition to 4.0

1999-01-24 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai: > my transition from 3.0 CURRENT to 4.0 CURRENT (make world and a new kernel) > as of today Sun Jan 24 18:25:32 CET 1999 work flawlessly up till now. Same here with an SMP kernel. FreeBSD tara 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #9: Sun Jan 24 18:54:47 CET 1999 ro

Re: Transition to 4.0

1999-01-24 Thread Mark Murray
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Just a general note to Matt, Mark and a couple of other commiters: > > my transition from 3.0 CURRENT to 4.0 CURRENT (make world and a new kernel) > as of today Sun Jan 24 18:25:32 CET 1999 work flawlessly up till now. > > Hope this is some good info after all the

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:FYI: a buildworld of -current including the above on FreeBSD/axp completed :without any incidents. : :Wilko :... :... ( other reports ) We are looking good, I've got half a dozen positive reports! On general principles, I think it is possible to make the FreeBSD VM system bulletproo

Re: ack! LaTeX?

1999-01-24 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 23 January 1999 at 19:44, Brett Taylor wrote: > How is teTeX not working? I'm using a month or so old version of -current > (back in the 3.0 days) on my home machine and teTeX works fine there. The latex installed by the teTex port complained about not being able to find default settings, o

one other small prob with pcm0

1999-01-24 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
This is a trivial problem, but I just thought I'd let someone know about it. (cosmetic) Take a look at my dmesg output: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #1:

Re: RELENG_3 boot failed

1999-01-24 Thread Donald J . Maddox
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 10:35:23AM -0500, Tom Torrance at home wrote: > After a cvsup this AM, the boot process failed when attempting > to mount the root partition, with the message: > specified device does no match mounted device. > > I had to change the device specification in /etc/fstab from >

Re: Booting -current with new loader

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:00:27PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Right now I'm looking at stamping the disklabel which contains the > > designated root filesystem and passing the stamp into the kernel, which > > will then go look for it. There are still gremlins with this approach, > > but I c

Re: Problem booting using /boot/loader

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> Yep! > > /boot/loader.old works OK! (dated Jan 11) > > /boot/loader (Jan 24) fails. > > And yes, the kernel was recompiled from the same cvsup sources. > > Definitely looks like something broke in the current loader. There was a window of a few hours where the 4-current loader was broken du

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Transition to 4.0

1999-01-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Just a general note to Matt, Mark and a couple of other commiters: my transition from 3.0 CURRENT to 4.0 CURRENT (make world and a new kernel) as of today Sun Jan 24 18:25:32 CET 1999 work flawlessly up till now. Hope this is some good info after all the breakages =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der W

Re: pcm0

1999-01-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I tried out pcm0 for sound on a ViBRA16x soundcard (don't laugh) and sound > works. The only problem is that there is no mixer. I was wondering if this > was a known problem with my card, or if nobody has done the mixer code i think it kind of worked a few months ago when i put in support for th

Re: Running 4.0, a few weirdies

1999-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > > > The old "unable to mount /, specified device does not match root > > device" on booting. My /etc/fstab had (working with -current from > > just a few weeks ago): > > > > /dev/wd0s1a / ufs rw 1

Re: Heads up! New swapper and VM changes have been committed to -4.x

1999-01-24 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:45:34PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Make sure your /usr/src/lib/libkvm is updated. Also update > /usr/src/include/kvm.h. Then update and recompile top, systat, > and pstat. Ahh. My cvsup / cvs / buildworld must have been at just the wrong time. This m

Re: Booting -current with new loader

1999-01-24 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:00:27PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > Right now I'm looking at stamping the disklabel which contains the > designated root filesystem and passing the stamp into the kernel, which > will then go look for it. There are still gremlins with this approach, > but I can't think

pcm0

1999-01-24 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I tried out pcm0 for sound on a ViBRA16x soundcard (don't laugh) and sound works. The only problem is that there is no mixer. I was wondering if this was a known problem with my card, or if nobody has done the mixer code yet... Thanks. Kenneth Culver Computer Science Major at the University of M

Re: make aout-to-elf-build failure

1999-01-24 Thread Mark Murray
Randy Bush wrote: > oops! still have > > /usr/obj/aout/usr/src/tmp/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: libcrypt.so.2, needed by /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so, not found (try using --rpath) > /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.

Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out LKM support now an option..)

1999-01-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mark Murray writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Doh, they were already axed by sos in late December. 'cvs co src/lkm' > > still creates directories for them though. I'm sure someone with more > > CVS experience than me will be able to explain why :) > Because you left off the "-P" "Prune empt

Re: make aout-to-elf-build failure

1999-01-24 Thread Mark Murray
Randy Bush wrote: > oops! still have > > /usr/obj/aout/usr/src/tmp/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: libcrypt.so.2, needed by /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so, not found (try using --rpath) > /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.

Current's availability

1999-01-24 Thread Steven P. Donegan
Yesterday I tried to ftp a current set of floppies from current.freebsd.org - nothing there but 2.2.X stuff - 3.0 tree gone and no 4.X tree apparent. Today I get connection refused at that site. ANy pointers to a current tree would be appreciated. TIA. Steven P. Donegan em

Re: make aout-to-elf-build failure

1999-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
oops! still have /usr/obj/aout/usr/src/tmp/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: libcrypt.so.2, needed by /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so, not found (try using --rpath) /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/kerberosIV/libexec/kipd/../../lib/libkrb/libkrb.so: undefined reference t

Re: Problem booting using /boot/loader (fwd)

1999-01-24 Thread oZZ!!!
>Yep! >/boot/loader.old works OK! (dated Jan 11) >/boot/loader (Jan 24) fails. >And yes, the kernel was recompiled from the same cvsup sources. >Definitely looks like something broke in the current loader. > >Harry. >Harry Starr wrote: >> >> Can anyone shed some light on this for me ?? > >Can yo

Re: 2Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-24 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Alfred Perlstein wrote... > On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > i have 'ed' driver and mine blows up as well. > > > :Here too... pretty quickly after boot on a SMP machine (current as of Jan > > :12) that pushes quite a bit of traffic, the following messages appear: > > : > > :de0:

Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0

1999-01-24 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Matthew Dillon wrote... > I've committed one bug fix to the 'found dirty cache page' bug -- > turns out vm_map_split() was the culprit, renaming pages > without removing them from PQ_CACHE. The bug was introduced > in -3.0, and hit the KASSERT() I put in -4.x. > > I've comm

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